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“Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors,” Ernest Hemingway 

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Really?

Apparently Patton Oswalt is a child. If he thinks that Girls is squirm inducingly honest, then either the industry has failed, or he's never been challenged by piece of art before. If it's the former, then OK. Sure. He is after all from the same suburbs I grew up in. Apparently he's never worked himself into situations that he wants to disavow completely upon waking. He's never had the kind of shame attack that I have often.

If it's the latter, then I just can't with him. And now I have to reconsider his stand up- the thing he does for money. If he thinks that what Lena Dunham is doing is something Honest, or Real, or (god help us) Profound, then he has spent his cultural currency too cheaply. 

Because whatever Girls is, it isn't searing, or real or honest. It's just a fucking television show about a self absorbed chick who happens to be slightly bigger than your average hollywood white person. 

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In which I add nothing to an already meaningless exchange

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So this thing happened. A street artist named Kidult used a fire extinguisher full of paint to rebrand the front of the Marc Jacobs store in SoHo. It is some sort of statement about something. I'm sure. 

The store's response was to make a T-shirt out of the defacing and sell it in their store.
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This shirt apparently costs $680 dollars. They call it Art by Art Jacobs. Okay. Not bad. And if they can sell it for $680 dollars then I guess it's worth $680 dollars. 
But this act apparently angered Kidult and others, who saw it as them coopting the subversive message into yet another empty capitalist item. So Kidult made his own shirt. 

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This is the state of political discourse in the world today. 

The whole things is whack. Kidult's message makes no sense- SoHo hasn't been about art in decades, seriously decades, and what he did wasn't art at all although filling a fire extinguisher with paint is a pretty cool hack. And seriously, who buys a $680 T-shirt? How do people even know that you paid that much for it? Or is it softer than lamb's wool that you've slept in for years? I don't know. I just think this whole thing is a statement. 

About something. 

(all photos from the observer)

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Longread

"During a moment of post-coital weakness, he probably had even agreed with her that God must be a woman." via the awl

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Inconceivable

From the website of 299 Valencia (click it- you know you want be depressed), yet another new development that has sprung up in the Mission, to add to the richness and diversity of this neighborhood. 

Live on the Valencia corridor. Where the restaurant scene thrives, every surface is covered with art, and the coffee houses, delis and bike shops are world famous but still locally owned. Grab a bite from a food truck, get an artisan haircut, and peruse racks of raw denim or brunch in a parklet. Enjoy the sunny days and the bustling nightlife.

Emphasis mine.

Are Flowbee's doing that well, because what other kind of haircuts exist? What in the name of Thor is a non-artisinal haircut? Surely robots aren't giving haircuts are they, right? So they're always done by hand, by humans, because anything else, would be fool hardy, dangerous and ill adv....

Oh. Oh. Dear.

Apparently our Robot Overlords are trying to take our barber jobs and incidentally the jobs of black actors.

DID YOU KNOW? That in order to be a successful applicant to Bayview's Barber College you must be "of good morals and possess temperate habits"? 

Doesn't the guy who volunteered his head to be slashed at by a Robot look like Jonah Hill's gamer brother who totally just teabagged you in Modern Warfare? 
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On further reflection this guy seems like the perfect new resident for 299 Valencia as he he will add to the colorful diversity of white people that comprise the neighborhood. I bet his ideas for a photos-of-brunch sharing app are revolutionary.  

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Man Up Soldier

Can I make it any clearer? Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok? "You are not going to act like that. You were made by God to be a male and you are going to be a male.

And when your daughter starts acting too butch you reign her in. And you say, "Oh, no, sweetheart. You can play sports. Play them to the glory of God. But sometimes you are going to act like a girl and walk like a girl and talk like a girl and smell like a girl and that means you are going to be beautiful. You are going to be attractive. You are going to dress yourself up."

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